Consecutive Interpreting 

Course Description

Course Title: Consecutive Interpreting

Course Prerequisites: Interpreting Foundation

Total Semester Credit Hours: 32

Lecture Hours: 32

Experiment/ Computer Hours: 0

Credit: 2

Major: English

Course Description:

Consecutive interpreting is an optional course offered to English majors for the improvement in their interpretation expertise. It is designed to help students further their command of the core concepts in interpretation and expand their spectrum of interpreting skills so as to improve their competence of doing C-E and E-C interpretation. Through this course, students, will have a more systematic understanding of the theory and knowledge about interpretation, master the principles and techniques involved in consecutive interpreting, as well as familiarize themselves with various interpreting topics. As a result, students will be given the opportunity to interpret public addresses on various occasions, putting themselves on the track of professional interpreters.

Textbooks and Course Materials:

1. 杨柳燕，苏伟. 口译教程（第2版）[M]. 上海: 上海外语教育出版社, 2014. (Yang Liuyan. Challenging Interpreting: A Coursebook of Interpreting Skills. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2014.)

2. 戴惠萍. 交替传译实践教程（下） [M]. 上海: 上海外语教育出版社, 2014. (Dai Huiping. Consecutive Interpreting – A Hands-On Textbook. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2014)

3. 李长栓. 英汉口译案例讲评 [M]. 北京: 外语教学与研究出版社, 2013. (Li Changshuan. Meaning and Expression: Annotated Texts in English/Chinese Interpretation. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2013)

Written by: Xie Yu